EMPHASIS I – TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS

Lesson Plan – Little Dinos and Pets Don’t Bite Us.

1. Profile

John Reminton Garzón – Julieth

 Name of the teachers:  Number of students: 15 students
Angélica Ramírez

 Name of the lesson: Little dinos and pets don’t bite us  Duration: 90 minutes

 Subject: English  Instructional settings: Whole class

 Grade: Kindergarten This lesson plan includes stories as a tool to teach and
learn new vocabulary in English. It is important to
 General description: recognize that for its development, it was applied some
 Ages: From four to six years old of the strategies and the structure of Task-Based
approach.

2. Introduction

Teaching English through stories is a good strategy to motivate children in their foreign language learning process. In fact, young learners develop
communicative and cognitive skills when they read in class since they improve pronunciation, learn new words, and acquire lexicon. This lesson plan is
a methodological route for the class where children learn English, but also they can express their feelings and emotions taking into account the plot of
the story. English teacher should encourage the participation of each student and achieve a moment of reflection at the end of the class.

. Objectives:
- To employ picture books as a tool to learn new vocabulary in English.
- Recognize the students’ preferences to engage them to the class’ contents and activities.
- Use stories as a way to develop the communicative competence in students.
 Teacher Talking
Stage Activity Description Time: Time (TTT), Materials
Students Talking
Time (STT)

During the first part of the activity the teachers are going to
Preparation Showing show two pictures of the book “Little Dinos Don’t Bite”, then 15 Minutes TTT: 3 minutes
activity pictures they are going to ask the children if they recognize some STT: 7 minutes Pictures (annex 1)
(Engaging) words and familiar situations that the pictures show (See
Annex 1).

Pre-Task: (Exploring) 20 Minutes TTT: 8 minutes

After watching the pictures, the teachers are going to show STT: 12 minutes Pictures and
the students some images and objects (See annex 2) which objects (Annex 2),
“Little are related to useful vocabulary to understand the story. pets’ pictures
Core Dinos Don’t After touching and experience these objects, the teachers are (Annex 3)
activity Bite” going to show them a picture of their pets (See annex 3).
During this activity, the teachers are going to include some of
the vocabulary they included previously.
Then, teachers will ask the students to describe their pets or
favourite animals by using the vocabulary they have learnt.
 Task: (Explaining)
During this part of the session, the teachers are going to 20 minutes TTT: 15 minutes Book: “Little
present the book to the students. The teachers will read the STT: 5 minutes Dinos Don’t Bite”
book twice: during the first time, teachers are going to make (See annex 4)
a continuous reading. During the second time, while reading
the story, the teachers will include their students by asking
some questions:
a. Do you have teeth?
b. Do you know how to bite?
c. Do you like to bite chairs?
e. Do you like to bite carrots?
f. Do you like to bite your mom?
Also, they will use their intonation and gestures to reinforce
some ideas that the book will present, and that were already
studied during the first part of the session.

Post-Task: Elaborating 15 minutes TTT: 3 minutes Objects.

After reading the story, the children will be asked if they STT: 7 minutes
liked the story. Then, teachers will ask the students to imitate
and to act as the dinosaur. They will use all the objects that
were previously employed.

Little After reading the story, the teachers are going to talk about 20 minutes TTT: 5 minutes Sheets of paper,
Follow-up
children their pets and how they are like the dinosaur. Then, students STT: 15 minutes markers, colours.
activity
draw will be asked to draw their pets. After that, students will
(Evaluating) share their drawings, also, they are going to mention one or
 two words previously mentioned to describe one of their
pets’ characteristics.

Assessment:
It is important to recognize that during the development of this lesson plan evaluation represents a whole process that goes from the beginning to the
end. Also, several evaluation strategies are going to be applied:
● Checking new vocabulary: During the first part the teachers are going to observe children’s ability to employ the new words that they learned to
describe orally their pets.
● After reading the story: After the story the teachers will check if children understand the story by asking them to act the situations of the story.
● Follow-up activity: During this part of the session students will show if they understand the concepts by relating them to their pets.
Note: specifications on evaluation are included in Annex 5- Rubrics.
3. Annexes:

1. Annex 1 – Pictures:

2. Annex 2 – List of words, objects and pictures:

a. Words’ list:

Bite Don’t bite

Nouns: Nouns:
Teeth Toys
Snack Chair
Apple Shoes
Carrot Mom
Dinosaurs

Adjectives: Adjectives:
Juicy Big
Tasty Sharp
Sweet Little

b. Pictures:
3. Annex 3- Pets’ Pictures:
Iris and Pandora Fito

4. Annex 4 – Picture Book

 Dahl, Michael. 2013. Little Dinos Don’t Bite. Genius.

5. Annex 5 – Rubrics
a. Checking new vocabulary:
● Did the students understand instructions?
● Did they participate?
● Did the students use new words to describe their pets?
● Were they active during the activity?

b. While reading the story:

● Did students pay attention to the story?
● Did they answer the questions?
● Did they follow teacher’s reading of the story?
● Did they like the story?
● Were images useful to understand the story?
c. Follow-up activity:

● Did the students understand instructions?

● Did the students understand the teachers?
● Did they draw and employ new words to describe their drawings?
4. References